Rena walked down the street with the girls: Serena, Ami, Mina, Lita, Raye, Amara, Michelle, Hotaru, and Trista. Also in the group was Darien, with Serena hanging off his arm. They were talking and laughing as they made their way to the park for a picnic.
As they spread the blanket out, they each sat down and began munching down. Once most of the food was gone, Mina looked up and said, "Wow, those guys sure are cute."
Lita and Raye both turned to where Mina was looking. Ami, being the more discreet, just glanced over the book she held and continued her reading. Hotaru was too young to care and Michelle and Amara could care less as long as they had each other. Trista didn't completely trust Mina's taste so she just ignored them. Serena, even though she had Darien, couldn't resist just looking at her friends possible boyfriends.
They saw eight young men, all around the teen age, walking down the sidewalk through the park seemingly looking for someone or something. Rena looked up and couldn't hide her surprise. She jumped up, squealed, and ran straight for the group, jumping right into the tallest guys arms. All the guys smiled and the tallest twirled her around a few times until he finally set her back on the ground.
"What are you guys doing here?" She asked enthusiastically.
"Visiting you, what else," Metis said.
"How did you get here?"
"Charon snuck us through the time portal," Deimos remarked, causing Rena to look at Charon in surprise.
"I would have expected this from Deimos, or even Eros, but not you," she said to Charon.
"I am full of surprises," he said simply, and left it at that.
"So, how have you been?" Hermes asked from his place beside Metis.
"Just great you guys. Guess who I made friends with?" She asked smugly.
Suddenly, the guys looked up at the group heading towards Rena and their eyes went wide. Rena turned around and smiled at the group of girls and Darien.
"Guys," she began, "meet my new friends." She then pointed to each in turn, "This is Serena and Darien, Mina, Lita, Raye, Ami, Amara, Michelle, Hotaru, and Trista. Everyone," she said, this time to the girls, "these are my friends from where I used to live." She then pointed to each of the guys in turn, "This is Hermes, Metis, Deimos, Eros, Puck, Proteus, Prometheus, and Charon."
"It's nice to meet you all," Serena said.
"Very nice to meet you all," Mina remarked, looking pointedly at Metis.
"Uh, it's very nice to meet Rena's new friends," Metis said, a little disturbed that his aunt was almost hitting on him. He just grabbed Hermes hand and hid a little behind him which was kind of hard considering his height.
Lita and Raye were a little flustered at all of the handsome men and couldn't decide who to flirt with first.
The guys were a little surprised at seeing their future mothers, and the fact that some of them had hearts in their eyes. They knew they were handsome, but they couldn't take their mothers.
"Would you guys like to join us?" Michelle asked as she stood next to a slightly suspicious Amara.
Soon the entire large group was either seated on the grass in the park or playing some sort of game. Serena sat in Darien's lap in a circle with Lita, Mina, Rena, Metis, Puck, and Proteus. Nearby, Hermes and Ami were in a discussion about some book or something that no one else was really interested in. Amara, Michelle, and Hotaru were playing some game with Deimos, Eros, and Prometheus.
Trista stood against a nearby tree, just observing the entire group with a slightly suspicious eye. Charon stood some ways away just watching as well and making sure that his past mother didn't figure anything out. She seemed to recognize them, but she couldn't quite place where she knew them from.
Soon, amidst the discussions, Metis just screamed, jumping up, and hiding behind a nearby tree. This caused everyone to stop what they were doing and for Hermes to rush over to Metis' side to see what was wrong.
"Are you all right?" Hermes asked, worry evident in his voice.
"No," he hissed in barely a whisper, "my mother just made a pass at me."
Hermes couldn't help himself and burst out laughing. The others came over, worried about their friend and brother. As his future mother approached he cringed and tried to hide even further behind the tree.
"Hermes," he scowled, trying to get the young man to stop laughing, but this just made him laugh even harder.
"I'm sorry," Hermes gasped out, trying to catch his breath and help his boyfriend. "It's just so funny."
Some of the other guys came up, hoping to find out what had happened. Eros, the group gossip, came up first and asked, "What's going on? Why did you scream Metis?"
Metis just glared at the boy, stepping out from behind the tree, and grabbing Hermes, made his way back over to the group. "Nothing's going on."
Hermes was still chuckling as the three rejoined the group. "Are you all right?" Serena asked Metis.
"I'm fine," he said, taking a new seat away from both Mina and Lita and between Rena and Hermes, who had finally stifled his laughing, but still had a huge grin on his face.
"What's wrong?" Rena asked, worried about her brothers.
"Nothing," Metis said.
He then turned a glare to Hermes when he said, "I'll tell you later."
The conversations continued then, the incident almost completely forgotten. Soon it began to get late and the group went their separate ways. Rena had to figure out where all the guys were going to stay because she was pretty sure she didn't have enough blankets for them all.
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